Unnatural Creatures

Neil Gaiman is a British author of fiction, comics, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. Born in Portchester, Hampshire, England, on November 10, 1960, he is among the few writers to win the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, Newbery, and Carnegie awards. Gaiman began his career as a journalist in the United Kingdom before moving into comics in the late 1980s. His landmark comic series "The Sandman", published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint from 1989 to 1996, redefined the medium and was the first comic ever to win the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. The series follows Dream of the Endless, ruler of the dimension of dreams, and weaves together mythology, history, and literary allusion across 75 issues. "The Sandman" has remained continuously in print and was adapted as a Netflix television series in 2022. Gaiman's novels include "Neverwhere" (1996), a dark urban fantasy set beneath London; "Stardust" (1999), a fairy tale for adults later adapted to film; "American Gods" (2001), which won the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards and was adapted by Starz; "Coraline" (2002), a children's horror novella adapted as a stop-motion film by Henry Selick; "Anansi Boys" (2005); "The Graveyard Book" (2008), which won both the Newbery Medal in the United States and the Carnegie Medal in the United Kingdom; and "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" (2013). His non-fiction "Norse Mythology" (2017) retells the Eddic tales for modern readers and reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Gaiman has also written for film and television, co-writing "MirrorMask" (2005) with Dave McKean and writing episodes of "Doctor Who" and the adaptation of his own novel "Good Omens" (co-written with Terry Pratchett) for Amazon Prime Video. Gaiman has lived in the United States since 1992 and holds dual British and American citizenship.